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I am always asked if there are any good training events happening that have great technical speakers.  I thought I would mention that there is an event called Tech Days taking place in San Francisco (at the Microsoft downtown office) on May 2nd and 3rd.  The list of speakers include the following...

Since starting the new TechNet Radio series called Virtualization and Experts Café on September 6th, 2012, I have received a lot of positive feedback and am excited to continue the series. In this third episode, I had a chance to chat with Edwin Yuen and Microsoft MVP Chris Steffen (Principal...

The AZ PowerShell (AZPOSH) User Group meeting on August 1, 2012 will be featuring Aleksandar Nikolic, a PowerShell MVP from Serbia, Europe.  Aleksandar will be presenting on PowerShell v3 Remoting . Aleksandar is a Microsoft PowerShell MVP and system administrator. He is also a co-founder and editor...

Don Jones is a very well known person in the PowerShell community.  I was able to get a few minutes of Don’s time to do a quick video interview regarding his latest work on PowerShell and his thoughts on the features of PowerShell in Windows Server 2012.  I am embedding the video interview...

The Windows Server 2012 team has worked with a group of MVPs to deliver a series of Windows Server 2012 all day events.  Since I’m based in the US, I am focusing on the ones taking place in my country, but there are a bunch taking place in different countries across the world. Not everyone who wants...

I had a chance to chat with Richard Campbell and get his thoughts on System Center 2012.  It’s always good to hear someone else’s take on our products.  Richard is very familiar with the Microsoft platform but at the same time, he is also independent and can share openly about his thoughts...

On October 17th, I wrote a blog post about upcoming TechNet Events taking place in the West Region in the November and December time frame ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/haroldwong/archive/2011/10/17/upcoming-west-region-technet-events-in-november-2011.aspx ).  I am now writing a follow up post to...

I had the opportunity to attend Tech Ed 2011 in Atlanta, GA from May 16th through 19th.  I thought I would recap some of my experiences from the past week.  Tech Ed is one of the best opportunities for IT Pros to gather and get the latest and greatest information on a plethora of Microsoft...

******************** Post Updated on April 27th, 2011 ****************************** I was informed that I had some incorrect information regarding FCC regulations and so I have removed the piece that is incorrect. Thank you to K.M. Richards for correcting me on this. Also, I meant no disrespect...

Wow, I know the month of March so far seems like a month of “advertising” and “marketing” from me, but that is not my intent.  I do need to get the word out on the May series of TechNet Events that will be hitting 5 cities in the West Region.  I will have more technical posts coming soon, but...

I’ve been here in Bellevue / Seattle / Redmond area since Sunday morning for the MVP Summit.  It’s been great to reconnect with MVPs that I don’t get to see very often (people like Jason Sherry, Hal Hostetler, Ed Horley, Andrew Karcher, Clayton Cobb, Ben Schorr, Randy Williams, Dennis Martin, etc...

Today, I had the TechNet Event in Denver Colorado that was co-delivered with Jason Sherry who happens to be an Exchange MVP out of Longmont, CO.  The event went very well today and there were lots of questions.  I wanted to follow up the event with some information for everyone. First, if you...

Exchange Server 2010 released last year in October 2009 and Service Pack 1 released on August 25 th . It is usually at this time during the product lifecycle that we find a large portion of our customers start down the upgrade planning path to get from their old version of Exchange to the current version...

****************************************** Blog post updated yet again on 8/18/10.  It seems my initial mistake was the correct dates for the cities.  I have corrected this (again).  September 20th is in Irvine and September 21st is in Culver City. ************************************...

Gotta love how things happen.  In the last 2 weeks, I’ve been asked by three people if Office Communications Server 2007 R2 supports SIP Trunks.  I know we do, but since I’ve never ever configured it myself, I have no clue how to actually do it.  I have usually pointed people to the Microsoft...

I just made a separate post for the Exchange Connections in Las Vegas next week.  This post is for the Windows Connections that is running at the same time.  Over the past few years, I’ve been delivering sessions on Exchange or OCS at the Exchange Connections in Las Vegas (and Orlando), but...

Doh!!!  I totally forgot to blog the fact that the upcoming Exchange Connections Event will be taking place in Las Vegas, NV from November 9 – 12, 2009: http://www.winconnections.com/default.asp .   Rajesh Jha, Corporate Vice President of Exchange, will be one of the keynote speakers at the...

A Directory Services MVP out of Seattle, WA by the name of Zubair Alexander is delivering a free Webinar on AD Management this coming Thursday, June 4, 2009 from 10 AM – 11 AM (PDT).  He will be covering the following topics. Password and User Management Provisioning and deprovisioning – consistency...

Since Tech Ed 2006 in Boston, I’ve been doing video interviews on site at Tech Ed.  This year was no different.  I was able to catch up with two Office Communications Server MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) this year and get their thoughts on OCS and what it has to offer.  The first...

For all those IT Pros and Developers that live in the Phoenix area, this "announcement" is for you.  I am hosting an XBox 360 year end party at the Phoenix Office this coming Saturday, December 13th, from 4 PM - 9 PM.  My initial plan was to host a little year end gathering that included...

Back on October 8th, I posted about a new User Group getting ready to start up in the Seattle area ( http://blogs.technet.com/haroldwong/archive/2008/10/07/seattle-windows-networking-user-group.aspx ).  Well, Zubair has finally been able to work out all the logistics for the meeting and the group...

I tend to get emails from folks asking if there are any good books out there on "Subject X".  I did find a good one for Exchange Server 2007 that has been updated for SP1 and is written by an MVP out of Washington.  William R. Stanek is the author of the Exchange Server 2007 Administrator...